The Daily Zeitgeist - In The Zeits 6/21: NBA, National Selfie Day, Shohei Ohtani, Disneyland, Olympics

Episode Date: June 21, 2021

In this edition of In The Zeits, Jack and Miles discuss NBA news, National Selfie Day, the UNSTOPPABLE Shohei Ohtani, Disneylands' pricey reopening, and the nightmarish juggernaut that is the Olympics Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That's Miles. So we're talking about the Sixers. Uh-huh. I'm actually surprisingly okay with it. The thing that always bothers me about basketball is how, like, meaningless and, like, arbitrary the losses seem sometimes. And this one, like heading into the series, I was like, well, the reason they would lose this series is because Ben Simmons is very limited offensively, which makes their team very easy to game plan against in a seven game series. And like,

you can't be easy to game plan against in a seven game series because good coaches will try like 20 different things to beat you. And then doc rivers doesn't make a lot of adjustments when somebody else, when the opposing coach makes an adjustment, uh, he is known for not making his own adjustments. And that's exactly what happened the formula is too rigid

the formula is too rigid and yeah I mean I think this is what had to happen for the franchise but I'm I am I feel like I'm going to root for Trey to keep bawling out of his mind because you know

my philosophy has always been like root for uh whatever team my dad is working for uh which was the sixers up until this season other than that my main interest in the nba is like seeing people who do shit that like you've never seen before and that's why i loved lebron uh that's why i love trey that's why i'm interested to see what he does against these bucks um so his new series eat trey love coming really good so many good trey ice trey uh yeah yeah but tonight uh there is no nba for the first time in a while that is what that is what's trending other than people tweeting funny things about doc rivers from the hangover from the sixers series i actually i have to read this one that was really funny jason c at network said it's

like the end of the shining only it's doc rivers and all the old pictures of playoff collapses uh and i feel like that's been melissa stettin had a for last week's guest melissa stettin had a similar thing where she was like it was doc the whole time that's it we freed ourselves yeah but yeah it's uh i'm excited for the clippers fans man they they needed this and this team is is exciting, especially if there's always a chance Kawhi comes back. We don't know. We just don't know. Let's talk about National Selfie Day,

because that is what it is. You like to aim a camera at your own face and just celebrate your facial existence. This is the day for you. Your facial and spatial existence a lot of people say like you know paris hilton she always claims that she created the selfie um in like what like 15 years ago when she took a picture with britney spears i don't obviously you know there have there's a long documented history of people with cameras before the advent of camera phones taking pictures of themselves in a mirror and things like that.

But hey, you know what, Paris, go off. You created it. Inventor of the selfie. Although that will be disputed in court. But yeah, get yourself a selfie. Yeah, when you Google invention of selfie, there are like three pictures. There's, uh,

uh, two like black and white ones. Uh, like Teddy, like a Japanese one. I know like was like a OG one, uh, of like this Japanese couple taking a selfie,

like in the, you know, early 20th century. Right. But Paris Hilton is the one that comes up first in the, in the image, google image searches um you know and most often people from it's it's true people from the early 20th century are terrible at seo so right so yeah it's also funny when you look at the old selfie picture someone actually

took a picture of the picture being taken and they're like holding just this massive i mean it's like the size of you know a pillow camera that they're like holding out with one hand presumably like quaking yeah uh producer brian asked the question that i think is always in the back of my mind when it's national anything days who keeps making these bullshit ass national days usually it's a brand that benefits from it but yeah for this i'm not sure what brand benefits from selfies other than maybe paris hilton maybe it's started by big paris you can like submit stuff too like if you get enough people like it's not it's not that hard um i mean also like when somebody claims that it's national anything

day does it actually have to be that like who is there a board that is declaring it so I think I think in this country we're very impressed with making things a national day yeah that we forget things like you know like

Joe Biden can make Juneteenth a national holiday without doing any of the harder work right it's like oh we love a holiday we love but with that it's like the congress voted uh federal employees get off work and that like whereas with national selfie day i hope congress didn't vote on that shit like i'm sure they're debating it right now joe mansion is holding out this is what's wrong with kit could you imagine those old ass people oh my god fucking hearing like yeah oh chuck schumer yeah i think paris hilton is like when you hear paris hilton interviewed um she's very thoughtful a lot of the time uh she's she's, you know, the, the story of how, I guess there's a documentary that I haven't

seen, but I wrote about it once in the past or edited, uh, something about it in the past where like the idea, like when you look at her career, it's like she was basically assaulted by a dude by like who released a video of them having sex and then like turned that into this big like pr wave and like just managed to uh stay relevant and famous for a long time um you know if anybody like a lot of people like she doesn't have any skills but like she managed to make herself famous without really having like i mean say what you want about her acting career i thought she was really good in house of wax but or reep on the genetic opera yeah forget classics but she tell you what she took an l to miles gray at privilege nightclub in 2006 okay yeah what what happened she she asked you to dance and you said i've told i've probably i think i've told this story on maybe like daniel

vankirk's podcast but uh yeah i was at a nightclub in the vip because that's where my was in 06 in la holler at your boy but she was tried to kick me out of the section and i i basically puffed my chest up i don'm like no i'm here like i'm i'm i'm staying here it's like well you need to get out of this booth i'm like well then you need to talk to this bigger celebrity who i've glommed on to to be here and uh after a little bit of you know back and forth and being like you're a fucking asshole i'm like well you nobody look i'm sitting here and you can't do shit uh really yeah yeah yeah wow this is this was like fucking choog miles is after the mtv music like some mtv awards shit back then uh and she had to

move and i was like and i was i was literally like thumbing my nose at her okay like because i felt like because at the time i was that was my one moment where i was like i have defeated the the celebrity industrial complex to drink gray goose uh that is at room temperature and was do you talk about what who the bigger celebrity friend of yours christina aguilera right so i i wonder if she had a uh theory of the game that any room was only big enough for one blonde celebrity because I've heard her be very antagonistic towards other blonde women.

My friend who was an actress was at this after party after a stage play she was in and she was a tall blonde woman and Paris Hilton singled her out and started throwing ice at her um from across the room which is like very antagonistic behavior um but then you also hear from people that she's very very nice yeah she's I mean I've had uh you know when I

left my last job there were people who were like working with her pretty closely and they were always like, yo, she is the kindest, most generous person I've ever worked with. Oh shit. Okay. Get down. And I think we're in different phases. Like Paris Hilton of 2006 is not the same as 2020 Paris Hilton as miles from 2006 is absolutely not the same person as 2021 miles, but yeah, we're growing the growth. Let's talk Otani i'm just gonna read directly so dan treaky uh tweeted the following chohe otani tuesday home run wednesday home run

thursday six innings pitched uh one earned run five strikeouts gets the w friday two home runs saturday home run sunday home run like yo what so this is uh the first two-way player in baseball in a long time uh and is just continuing to be unbelievable and he's gonna be in the home run derby i mean let's fucking go i'm oh please i was i was watching japanese news um because whenever we got a player in the majors like they will they will fucking in like half of a news broadcast we'll just be talking about like ichiro or whoever was out at the time or like uh matsui hideki or whatever and right now they were showing him at um at coors field or wherever the rockies play and there's been like and doing all this like science breakdown about why him going to the upper decks over there is like really something else and

how like obviously like the air is thinner but where he's hitting it is even further and they're like oh we love shohei and i'm like i love that we get this version of Shohei coverage in Japan, but like on the news being very serious, but it's all like a fun ESPN segment. Right. Mountain golf, man. Don't let Shohei play mountain golf against your pitchers.

Showmania, man. Yeah, yeah. No time. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk Disneyland and the Olympics. All right, let's take a quick break, and we'll come back and talk Disneyland and the Olympics.

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And we're back. And Disneyland has opened back up for the most part. And there's analysis from the hippies up San Francisco way that says it's too expensive. Why do they hate capitalism? explain yeah i don't know what it is but like here's the deal they were doing a little bit of analysis on their own doing a poll for different readers and also asking like their incomes and they realize san francisco observer this is sf gate uh sf gate yeah saying you know people with income less than $75,000 are most likely to visit Disney parks, while people with income over $150,000 are the least likely to visit. And then it's a quote, those who said they earned between $50,000 and $74,000 were seemingly the most eager to visit.

Those who say they earned between $25,000 and $50,000 said they were the second largest group to say they consider visiting a Disneyland park or Disney park. So when you think about that and you look at the prices, you're like they're pricing out the people who actually want to go to the park. Because you look at the rates that things cost, like whether it's a $200 ticket right now to go to like for Disneyland or an $800, like the standard room at the Grand Californian Hotel is $800. Their food prices are going up. They're like, this isn't, I don't know what they're trying to do,

but apparently like in a quarterly earnings call, the CEO of Disney did say they were going to take a more aggressive financial strategy, which I guess means like gouging the ceo of disney did say they were going to take a more aggressive financial strategy which i guess means like gouging the fuck out of people uh or just leveraging their desperation to go to the park to be like well it's gonna cost a lot more now that's that's wild um yeah the is disney world cheaper than disneyland Because it has more... Technically. Disneyland makes sense to me because they have such limited rides and space, and still people go there, so maybe that's where it's coming from, but it's just aggressive and

crappy regardless. At Disney World, 163 is the cheapest hotel you can get on the disney property there the same night in in california 463 wow but it's yeah it's just like a lot of i think they're just trying to figure out how they're making up for a lot of lost revenue and seeing what they can get away with going for but i don't know it's it's yeah it's kind of wild. Cause I'm like, I don't fuck with it. I mean, 200 bucks. Like that's a lot of other things. Yeah. I think it's,

it also feels especially cruel because there are people like if you have kids, I feel like not taking them to Disneyland, if you live nearby or if you're traveling, there is almost like not, you know, it's not like an option for a lot of people and then there's also the people whose entire lifestyle is like disney and disneyland right so it's like not really an option for them so that's probably why they realize they can do this it's just cruel but they're because it's because they took the

financial hit of the pandemic they're going to you know claw that money back anyway they can same same way that uh rental car companies are just like oh well we don't yeah well i mean yeah they've they definitely have a supply problem with their with their fleets but like the other thing they know is like at disneyland you're not even getting the whole magilla anymore there's no parades there's no fireworks there's a lot of shit that they had to strip away for you know safety regulations and they're going back to full-blown prices and none of that's there the other thing is they're saying what's fucked up is that they don't even have the tram that will take you from the parking lot to the fucking park. Wait, really? You gotta walk damn near a mile

to get to the park entrance. Yes. Oh. That is... Like, when you think about kids... The heat and shit? And, like, the fact that you get there, the drive there is wild.

The kids are asking, you know, the famous question over and over again. You get there and then walk a mile? in triple digit weather oh yeah that's it sounds like a fucking scam right now so you know i know like they're they're gonna bring back like the cheaper single day single park tickets like in august but right now they really got people to the sword yeah that's brutal one example just wait a second yeah you get they have these weird enhancements like premium add-ons you can pay 60 to get a better score on the spider-man ride wait really like officially from disney yes it's an enhancement a 60 enhancement on the avengers campus is it worth spending an extra six there's

like articles being like is it worth spending another 60 to just get an arbitrarily higher score like do you get because on the ride it's like you're you know you're doing shit like you're shooting webs uh and for 29 you can buy a webTech power band, which I guess they say increases your accuracy for the web shooting. For another $24.99, you could get the WebTech web shooter or repulsor. Additional upgrades, which I guess enhance like how sick with it you are with the webs.

It's like, what are you, like you're doing in-game transactions, like microtrans transactions from video games now and park things like this is this is too much it's just like creates such a weird dystopian world where like rich kids get to be like i beat you like again like next to kids who like also like had to wait in line to get to this game whereas like the rich kids got to cut the line because their parents paid for like some of their parents pretend to have a broken leg well that's just shrewdness that's just being i know but that's just like but it's it's such it's just such a reflection of how our society is like even that

right is about like these advantages that are available to people with privilege that aren't otherwise and then these kids growing up and like i'm sick at the spider-man game right now man right your fucking parents were over it and they paid 60 bucks so you stopped crying because you kept coming in third yep and finally uh the olympics are still happening uh that's it that's all i got so they're still happening and they're also so they were asked not to do this by many health experts uh not to do the olympics in general they were like yeah right uh do you have any idea uh how much money is at stake and so then the health experts last week said could we do it with no fans since fans aren't

really like a huge part of like the the olympics are very much a tv skeptical spectacle um there's definitely like in-person crowds but i feel like it wouldn't be that wild for there not to be audiences uh and once again they were like come on man you you know we make money off of tickets right uh because uh olympics are basically like a any given country's opportunity to show what it would look like if they went full authoritarian police state right and that like and that's obviously like motivated by modern police state would obviously be motivated by capitalism and just, which is the motivation to protect capital, protect rich people, uh, at all costs.

And so, you know, they got to allow the 10,000 richest people in town to go to the events. So that's what they're going to do. Each event will be capped at 10,000. Uh, but then, uh, because the athletes, even though they're the whole reason anybody's there because the athletes aren't uh the richest people in the room they're not uh being treated that well uh for instance they have to eat by themselves in the olympic village uh in silence uh because you know you they don't they want to guard against covet transmission you can't even also challenge clips on youtube on your right and then they are making it so that the crowd those 10 000 people at an event are not allowed to shout or make loud noises um and they have to

wear masks so they the athletes will get the experience of like being gazed on silently by like a crowd of people. Like it's like that scene in, yeah, by mass. It's like the scene in eyes wide shut when Tom Cruise is unmasked. That'll be, yeah,

it's just for the, just people breathing heavy, watching people like limber up for a fucking sprint, like dry cough somewhere in the audience as you prepare to like go on i hate trial about japan man like i remember i went to see real madrid play in japan like an exhibition game back when zidane and ronaldo like fat brazilian ronaldo played on the team and figo and all them and David Beckham just signed. I went with my couple friends and I was turnt up.

I'd never seen Zidane in my life. He's one of my favorite players. I was in the front. I was getting all turnt up. I had to be told so many times to just please sit down and please not be so loud. Really? In Japan, sometimes they don't want

everybody standing. If everyone's sitting, you can't just be this dude stand like if everyone's sitting you can't just be the turn down person totally determined by like the people around you what the vibe is like well right like because you're in front of people and you're big american ass when you stand up you're blocking the view from other persons like all right fine but it like puts such a damper on like having to you know subdue your enthusiasm at a sporting event i'm incapable of that like that's why i i live to yell at athletes uh and this that's been taken away and i just don't know what if that's like them thinking that's how they're going to be clever and cut down like transmission because people aren't there's

not as many particulate going in the air but yeah i think that's what i'm thinking what a fucking l right exactly entire olympics this is right like the 10 000 people is not a like atmosphere thing it's purely a rich people already paid for these tickets thing yeah um all right shout out to the Olympic athletes. Hopefully you all are staying sane over there. Again, this is hopefully a push to just make it one location every time. Yeah. Would that be Athens? Or what are we thinking? I guess if you wanted to keep it OG or whatever.

Yeah, why not? But then the people start fighting like, why do they get it? And they're like fuck yeah stupid like if it's right because this is just really a four-year traveling circus to sell fucking you know whatever the fuck you're selling that yeah um all right well those are some of the things that are trending here on monday afternoon We are back tomorrow morning with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing

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